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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2011-01-21 03:05:38 +0000
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-01-25 15:24:47 -0500
commitf61f6da0d53842e849bab7f69e1431bd3de1136d (patch)
tree8433904f645695338b98d3dc831631ffd6f129e5 /fs/posix_acl.c
parent731f3f482ad3b2c58a1af2d0a9a634a82803706a (diff)
downloadlinux-f61f6da0d53842e849bab7f69e1431bd3de1136d.tar.gz
NFS: Prevent memory allocation failure in nfsacl_encode()
nfsacl_encode() allocates memory in certain cases.  This of course
is not guaranteed to work.

Since commit 9f06c719 "SUNRPC: New xdr_streams XDR encoder API", the
kernel's XDR encoders can't return a result indicating possibly a
failure, so a memory allocation failure in nfsacl_encode() has become
fatal (ie, the XDR code Oopses) in some cases.

However, the allocated memory is a tiny fixed amount, on the order
of 40-50 bytes.  We can easily use a stack-allocated buffer for
this, with only a wee bit of nose-holding.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/posix_acl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/posix_acl.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 39df95a0ec25..b1cf6bf4b41d 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_init);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_alloc);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_clone);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_valid);
@@ -32,6 +33,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_chmod_masq);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_permission);
 
 /*
+ * Init a fresh posix_acl
+ */
+void
+posix_acl_init(struct posix_acl *acl, int count)
+{
+	atomic_set(&acl->a_refcount, 1);
+	acl->a_count = count;
+}
+
+/*
  * Allocate a new ACL with the specified number of entries.
  */
 struct posix_acl *
@@ -40,10 +51,8 @@ posix_acl_alloc(int count, gfp_t flags)
 	const size_t size = sizeof(struct posix_acl) +
 	                    count * sizeof(struct posix_acl_entry);
 	struct posix_acl *acl = kmalloc(size, flags);
-	if (acl) {
-		atomic_set(&acl->a_refcount, 1);
-		acl->a_count = count;
-	}
+	if (acl)
+		posix_acl_init(acl, count);
 	return acl;
 }